› I am on the highest Codex tier, and the first thing I did on the morning of the GPT-Image-2.6 launch was ask Codex whether it already had the new model.
› The answer was honest and slightly disappointing: the image tool is there, but it does not reveal the underlying model version or let you pick between Sunburst and Flare, while Codex documentation on launch day still pointed to the older gpt-image-2.
› Codex added that it would not label generated images as "2.6" without explicit confirmation.
› Fair enough.Because of that, all my benchmark runs for the Images 2.6 overview were executed directly through the API, where I specify the model identifier myself and track the bill down to the cent.